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Report discloses Clintons' finances

May 17, 2001|By Items compiled from Tribune news services.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's first financial disclosure form as a senator shows her and her husband with more legal fees than assets. But it doesn't include her $8 million book deal or the six-figure fees her husband now receives on the lecture circuit.

Sen. Clinton reported a government-approved blind trust worth between $500,001 and $1 million. That joint trust with former President Bill Clinton dates from their White House days and was approved by the executive branch's Office of Government Ethics.

The trust earned between $100,001 and $1 million in 2000.

The report said Clinton (D-N.Y.) and the former president had joint legal fees of between $1 million and $5 million and that her husband owes between $1.3 million and $5.6 million.

The Clintons have a separate legal expense fund to help defray those costs.